There’s been speculation about Sabrina Carpenter and Barry Keoghan’s relationship since her final shows in LA (before she resumes her tour in Europe next March) because of his absence. She instead was flirting with Marcello Hernandez aka “Domingo”.
A few days ago, DeuxMoi posted a rumour about a popstar breaking up with her actor boyfriend before her final LA shows because she caught him hooking up with a TikTok influencer. Everyone presumed it was Sabrina and Barry. And then yesterday PEOPLE reported exclusively that they’ve “decided to take a break”:
“A source confirms to PEOPLE that the pair have ended their romantic relationship for now, about a year after they began dating.”
Everyone on the internet went full CSI on who the TikTokker could be. But even the Slow Horses could have figured it out because she appeared to out herself. People were already suspecting it could be Breckie Hill but then Breckie started reposting videos about Sabrina and Barry’s split, seeming to welcome the suspicions.
And then Olivia “Livvy” Dunne, another popular person on TikTok entered the chat and posted this, doubling down on the buzz about Breckie and Barry:
@livvy I just sit back and laugh
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Livvy is Breckie’s nemesis, or vice versa. They were clawing at each other even before they made their way onto the Sabrina-Barry timeline. So now that Breckie is presumed to be the girl who stepped to Sabrina Carpenter’s man, Livvy is apparently smugging that she was right about Breckie all along.
And all this blonde drama is lighting up social media. The way these kids are talking about it, it’s like this is their new Brange vs Aniston.
If you only just heard of Breckie and Livvy today… girl, I’m not that far in front of you. Like maybe a day, tops. So far there’s been nothing from Sabrina, the real and only star in this conversation. She’s still following Barry on IG and she remain the only person he’s following on IG (at the time of this writing) but if all this is true, Sabrina comes out of it fine. Barry, on the other hand, well it’s a bad look.
Not the cheating part of it, because when has a young actor ever been held back over a romantic mess? Please. The cheating is not the issue, the issue is becoming entangled in a blonde vs blonde influencer beef.
It’s silly. It’s unserious, and not in a good way.
This is a person who’s on his way to becoming a movie star and he’s caught up in a war between clout chasers. Like if this was a cheating scandal between Barry, Sabrina, and, like, Dove Cameron, or Sidney Sweeney, or Elle Fanning, totally different story. But we’re dealing with young women who, quite spectacularly, are not afraid of being labelled the “third party” in a celebrity relationship but are relishing the experience. Because, ultimately, they can and will exploit the notoriety.
I’m not mad at it for Breckie. It’s actually kind of exhilarating that her social media activity has been so brazen since this broke. That said, this behaviour is having a direct impact on legacy fame. There was a time when celebrities would have been mortified that their personal lives were being put on blast in this way. And even the people involved with them would have attempted to hide.
Not now! Not anymore!
Breckie’s putting her hand up in class even before the teacher asks who copied the answers to the test. And this is disrupting the celebrity ecosystem.